Here's something wild: the U.S. Mint is actually selling platinum below spot price right now on their official site. You read that right—government-backed supply is moving at a discount to market rates.

Think about that for a second. When public institutions can't even manage basic commodity pricing efficiently, you've got a system struggling to compete with actual market mechanisms. The bureaucracy moves slower than the market moves, and that gap? Someone's losing money on it.

This is exactly the kind of inefficiency that makes people question centralized institutions. Meanwhile, decentralized markets price things in real-time based on actual supply and demand. No government committee meetings required.